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Czar or no czar, Obama has a genuine crisis boiling up in Detroit. Without major changes in the structure of the industry, the auto business is going to sink under mountainous waves of red ink. GM and Chrysler were in trouble even before the recession tore the bottom out of sales - and Ford's slightly better financial picture has been clouded by nearly $15 billion in losses last year...
...mostly foreign-owned; Spain has stumped up $5.1 billion in public cash to bail-out car firms; and Germany has set aside $1.9 billion to pay owners to junk their old cars and buy something new. At the same time, the U.S. government has handed $17.4 billion to GM and Chrysler, a move that European carmakers say leaves them at a competitive disadvantage. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...GM is not a career anymore.' TOM SUARTO, a retired autoworker whose son will lose his factory job next month. Since 1912, four generations of Suarto's family have worked for General Motors...
...GM is preparing to go through another round of layoffs. It has hopes, which are probably futile, that it can push out enough people, in addition to getting creditor concessions and supplier price cuts, to prove to Congress that it can operate at break-even. That would give it additional government funds to keep it afloat while it restructures. To reach part of its goal, the company is offering incentives which it believes will get 10,000 union members off its payroll. Bloomberg has reported that it may fire another 5,000 white collar workers...
...million unit sales, which is the level from just three years ago, Detroit may be forced to give up market share because it cannot replace its old plants and labor infrastructure fast enough to take advantage of a modest but rapid sales recovery. At a 20% market share, GM will only have to produce 2.2 million vehicles in the U.S. this year. If it wants to keep that share when sales get back to where they were the year before the economy dropped into recession, the company will have to build 3.2 million vehicles. GM's annual output capacity would...